So you don’t have to. And watch . . . I’m going to do it really hard!
S.F. Mayor Seeks Alcohol Counseling
Next time I spend the month’s mortgage on a new computer, I’m checking into rehab, baby!
Newsom last week acknowledged a sexual relationship with former secretary Ruby Rippey-Tourk, the wife of his now-former campaign manager, Alex Tourk.
Why is that so funny? I suspect it’s something deeply infantile, and therefore hilarious. If you can explain why Ruby Rippey-Tourk is so funny in this context, please write me a detailed, serious, preferably Adlerian analysis below. Thanks.
As a conservative residing behind enemy lines in “The People’s Republic of the Bay Area”, I’ve found the local reporting on Mayor Gavin “Any-Twosome” Newsom’s sexual indiscretions with a City employee that was married to one of his best friends quite interesting.
The bulk of the news reports, and radio talk show chatter, have focused on how the Mayor has broken the “man code” by sleeping with the wife of a close friend, thereby hurting his future electoral prospects with male voters going forward.
What isn’t being discussed at all, is the fact that he not only slept with the wife of a close friend, but the mother a young two-year old child. SF has a well-deserved reputation for being “family unfriendly”. The Mayor’s actions take that dynamic to a whole new level, as he’s displayed not only a selfish disregard for his close friend and aide, but a complete disrespect of a family union responsible for raising a youngster.
What also isn’t being discussed, is the old feminist movement proclamation that there can’t be “consent” if a “power imbalance” exists, as when the man is the woman’s workplace superior. Pre-Clinton, every Fortune 500 exec or politician caught engaging in a sexual affair with a younger
woman in a reporting role was deemed a predator.
Because of the power imbalance in the relationship, the woman was a “victim”, unable to intellectually consent to the relationship for fear of losing her job and salary.
Post-Clinton, the feminsts are mute, at least as these cases involve liberal politicians, like Newsom.
Now, Gavin has taken the “Foley-light” approach and claimed that he’s getting “counseling” for “alcohol use”. Not rehab, “counseling”, and the sympathetic progressives will now cluck approvingly and extend the Mayor a “pass” on his lack of character, judgement and loyalty.
I can only conclude that if God doesn’t destroy San Francisco, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
Just wait until the left cries that Rudy shouldn’t run because he had an affair, there will still be “mum” on Newsome or Clinton which is par for the course or counts as discourse I guess.
Oooooooo! I see your philandering mayor and raise you a whacked-out female astronaut in diapers with rubber tubing and pepper spray!
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Jeff! I see a movie script here!
When did rehab become the celebrity penalty box?
Will Newsom be redeemed after his 5 minute major? Will Isaiah Washington be cured of his homophobia?
I didn’t see anything about poop stabbing – which usually leads in the SF news. Is this a hetero-thing? (Yawn)
What I want to know is if Ruby Rippey is related to Rodney Allan Rippey.
(Note for those who went “who?” at that: it’s a geezer thing.)
Regards,
Ric
Just a hunch, but I’m gonna guess no, Ric.
Hilda Mae Snoops.
Pablo —
I’d guess not, too, but I’ll bet the resonance with the whole Michael Jackson business is what set Dan off on the name.
Regards,
Ric
Actually, I think it’s the alliterative similarity between “Ruby Rippey-Tourk” and Kipling’s “Riki-Tiki-Tavi” that illicits the humor. Especially the imagery of the brave litle mongoose doing battle with Gavin’s spitting “cobra”, if you know what I mean and I think you do, wink, wink, nudge, nudge….
You’ve painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair,
Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere?
The shadows on the wall tell me the sun is going down,
Oh Ruby, don’t take your love to town.
Ruby Rippey-Tourk. It’s kind of funny because it has alliteration, “Tourk” sounds vaguely like “tuke” as in “Canadian knit cap”, the name is hyphenated to suggest free-will on her part, it doesn’t involve another man (as a San Francisco scandal sort of should, in the grand meme of things,) “Rippey” sounds like some sort of pet name for a paramour who likes to remove garments in a manner which renders them useless, and it didn’t happen to anyone we know or particularily care about.
That pretty much sums it up for me.
When I first heard about this, I said to myself: uh oh, this is really going to hurt him in SF because it reveals his heteronormativity. Having seen Ruby’s picture, I do kind of understand where Newsom is coming from, if you know what I mean.
There’s also something almost too pitch-perfect Armistead Maupin about the name Ruby Rippey-Tourk.
Ruby is a fairly generic “easy lay’ name, Rippey speaks for itself..”gently he ripped the thin silk from her supine form etc etc” and Tourk is funny because it brings to mind the dork from The Monkees. Put the whole thing together with a San Francisco politician, and you have enough snigger triggers to render a Trappist monk speechless.
No, hang on. To drive a Trappist monk to loud guffaws.
great, now that I know that, I’ll never look at my grandmother the same way again.
Tourk sounds like a synonym for sex.
Boy, I really tourked her last nite.
Maggie, obviously it wasn’t an easy lay name back then. Only since Ruby Wax etc achieved prominence. And that one who went to town.
And after seeing Ruby’s husband, I can understand where she’s coming from. I have no doubt though that in bedrooms all over San Francisco, the mayor is being condemned for his lack of sensitivity towards gays by having an openly heterosexual relationship.
I too am a conservative (ok more libertarian) living behind enemy lines in San Franshitsco (world’s largest open-air sewer). What I thought was most interesting was the chick reaction to Gavin’s little slip up. The female comments on local media websites like SF Gate are running 95% in his favor “its his personal business.” One chick even wrote with a straight face (I presume) that the cuckolded husband should be flattered that Ruby got screwed by such an attractive man! Chicks, god bless ‘em, definitely live by a different code. Oh, and “Ruby” looks like the kind of dried-up Meth whore I’d expect to find in a bar in Modesto or Fresno….
TMTM,
On the contrary, I think that by and large women police one another’s behavior more than men do each other’s in this regard.
Please place mental parentheses around “by and large”.
Perhaps each other’s behavior, but they sure seem keen to give attractive rich men a pass (or even not so attractive powerful men–WJ Clinton, anyone)? As far as policing each other, I think that “by and large” what drives that is not a sense of moral repulsion or a sense of right and wrong but more simple jealousy that some other chick got to cheat with the handsome rich guy and they didn’t….Of course we’re generalizing here, but hey, that’s half the fun!
Seems like I have a vague recollection of some semi-high profile female member of the White House press corp admitting publicly that she’d suck Slick’s Willy if given the opportunity. And at the time us hicks out here in fly-over land couldn’t figger out where Clinton got his “get out of jail free” card.
Does Ruby have a middle name? Or a sister who is younger, preferably unmarried, (but WTF, as it was good enuf for hizzoner, I’ll take a bit off a married one).
“Nobody ever noticed a slice off a cut loaf of bread.” from Breaker Morant
The campaign manager shoulda stayed on.
THEN we’d see who got fucked, eh?
Can this rehab thing work in advance?
In NY anyway, they have Safe Driving classes where you can get 10% off your insurance if you attend, or 3 points off your license.
Not that I’m planning on getting into trouble, but you never know when you might need some absolution…
Seriously, where did this counseling in lieu of consequences stuff start?
If Gavin had an ‘R’ attached to his political CV (humor me), you think all the progressive babes in the greater bay area would be as dismissive of his behavior?
Well, all I know is that if Ruby Rippey-Tourk married artist Werner Rentsch, she would be Ruby Rippey-Tourk-Rentsch…
Perhaps I need to start hanging out in bars in Modesto and Fresno…
Ruby Rippey-Tourk is a name out of a James Bond novel, definitely. She is a contract hit-woman of Spector who kills men by “beheading” them. She has a contract to take out James but falls in love with him, sacrificing herself to save him from certain death in an Amsterdam wiener factory explosion.
Percy–I saw a more recent picture of her (don’t have a link right now but one could probably google it easily enough) where she looks ten years older–evidently she’s been hitting the drugs and booze pretty hard since that photo was taken….
Ruby,Ruby,Ruby. What have you gotten yourself into. I know for sure you are finding this entire fiasco fantastically hilarious! should I post the photos of you and Nicole and the videos of “all of us”. You’ve come a long way since St A’s and LSD and and all the late nights between Napa and Tiburon. If you’re reading, drop me a line. It’s Fred.
Now for the advanced course. Ruby Rippey-Tourk vs Lisa Nowak in a steel-cage death match.